On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:06:07AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
$ apt-get install wipe shred
$ man wipe shred
$ dpkg -S shred
fileutils: /usr/share/man/man1/shred.1.gz
fileutils: /usr/bin/shred
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on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I would like to talk about the filesystem or whatver is relevant to this.
When I delete a file, it is not actually deleted, but marked as free space,
right?
So, assuming I have a program that can do these things:
I would like to talk about the filesystem or whatver is relevant to this.
When I delete a file, it is not actually deleted, but marked as free space,
right?
So, assuming I have a program that can do these things:
- issue system call to get file size in bytes
- open file for writing, preserving
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:58:23AM +1100, Penguin wrote:
So essentially I can write a user mode file
shredder/secure deletion program in C using just the standard C library on
Debian?
Sure, if you really wanted to. Or you could just `man shred`.
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